We very much appreciate this review! I can fully see the time and appreciation that was given to the product, we love it even if it's a bit of an oddball. As one of the three people working to bring this to life, I resonate with a lot of your observations and insights shared. I think you've captured much of the essence quite well and it was very fun to watch the struggle to categorize such an oddity. ⚔💕📖⏳
Had this introduced to me by a friend and I had no expectations on what it was about. Repeat plays definitely upped our enjoyment and understanding of the doublethink. The production is super odd and charming. It was definitely more of an "above the table game" than my usual Euro fare. I think the review captures it well so people can figure out if it's for them.
Oh my word, the whole overview I thought Zee was saying "cleric" weirdly and I finally figured out it was choleric when Milla said it in the review XD (I don't know if the word was shown on screen, I was just listening and not watching)
The dispostion of colors that each cards can have seems whats the most interesting to me. Maybe its not that of a big deal while you play, but I feel like all cards are more or less a mini-game with different possible resolution based on the colors shown. Also the cards on the side seems interesting to me, they can be used as deck trimming, or could be there to give people the ability to change the tempo if they dont want to trigger something, also give something to fight for if you dont care for what the cards can give you (based on the reward, your draw, and the colors printed).
No Milla, this wasn't just for traveling quacks. Humor-based medicine and psychology was "the science" in its day. Kings and emperors would be bled to relieve symptoms because blood was the easiest of the four bodily substances to manipulate in order to find a balance. This was also (as goofy as it seems now) the earliest form of medicine which related personality and psychology to physical processes in the body. Your mood and overall personality were thought to be driven by the relative balance of the humors just like your physical health. Psychology was understood as related directly to medical health for perhaps the first time. We still use some of these words today. "Sanguine" ironically either means (taken literally) "bloody," or "calm and confident of temperment." Melancholy (lit. "Black bile" in Latin) is essentially the old word for depression which was believed to come from too high a concentration of black bile. Choleric and Phlegmatic aren't really used anymore, but "bilious" occasionally is. It refers to a temperment once believed to be caused by excessive yellow bile (thus the English form of Latin "Choleric"). Terms such as a person being in or having "good humor" come from this conception. "Humor" once only referred to the four specific bodily fluids. This theory is why we today use it in regards to personality and emotion. Though we thankfully were able to eventually replace Four Humors theory with more accurate models, it represents a very important midpoint in the progression of the treatment of physical and psychological ailment from one of immaterial to material causes and processes.
Yes; other terms from that "phase" of medicine was hysteria, where female anger was thought associated with the uterus. (If it was PMS-pain anger it could be said they were right :) )
This game in my group has 4 people loving it (personally in my top 10) and 2 people that despise it. Very cool game, very divisive though for us. We have multiple copies in our play group, that's how much we like it.
Yes, like "I played a red here, so if you play a red there we both win" but if I played a yellow and you think you can outwit me with a yellow too we both lose...
@@NinjarioPicmin I already have Delores at home and haven't played it in a while too. It's more of an interesting pun than a great game. I bought Four Humours today. Hopefully I'll be able to try it this weekend.
We very much appreciate this review! I can fully see the time and appreciation that was given to the product, we love it even if it's a bit of an oddball. As one of the three people working to bring this to life, I resonate with a lot of your observations and insights shared. I think you've captured much of the essence quite well and it was very fun to watch the struggle to categorize such an oddity. ⚔💕📖⏳
More ZeeMilla reviews please, that was great!
Had this introduced to me by a friend and I had no expectations on what it was about. Repeat plays definitely upped our enjoyment and understanding of the doublethink. The production is super odd and charming. It was definitely more of an "above the table game" than my usual Euro fare. I think the review captures it well so people can figure out if it's for them.
Thanks so much for the thoughtful review and for that excellent gameplay explanation!
Oh my word, the whole overview I thought Zee was saying "cleric" weirdly and I finally figured out it was choleric when Milla said it in the review XD (I don't know if the word was shown on screen, I was just listening and not watching)
The dispostion of colors that each cards can have seems whats the most interesting to me. Maybe its not that of a big deal while you play, but I feel like all cards are more or less a mini-game with different possible resolution based on the colors shown.
Also the cards on the side seems interesting to me, they can be used as deck trimming, or could be there to give people the ability to change the tempo if they dont want to trigger something, also give something to fight for if you dont care for what the cards can give you (based on the reward, your draw, and the colors printed).
No Milla, this wasn't just for traveling quacks. Humor-based medicine and psychology was "the science" in its day. Kings and emperors would be bled to relieve symptoms because blood was the easiest of the four bodily substances to manipulate in order to find a balance. This was also (as goofy as it seems now) the earliest form of medicine which related personality and psychology to physical processes in the body. Your mood and overall personality were thought to be driven by the relative balance of the humors just like your physical health. Psychology was understood as related directly to medical health for perhaps the first time.
We still use some of these words today. "Sanguine" ironically either means (taken literally) "bloody," or "calm and confident of temperment." Melancholy (lit. "Black bile" in Latin) is essentially the old word for depression which was believed to come from too high a concentration of black bile. Choleric and Phlegmatic aren't really used anymore, but "bilious" occasionally is. It refers to a temperment once believed to be caused by excessive yellow bile (thus the English form of Latin "Choleric").
Terms such as a person being in or having "good humor" come from this conception. "Humor" once only referred to the four specific bodily fluids. This theory is why we today use it in regards to personality and emotion.
Though we thankfully were able to eventually replace Four Humors theory with more accurate models, it represents a very important midpoint in the progression of the treatment of physical and psychological ailment from one of immaterial to material causes and processes.
Totally agree, except Choleric and Phlegmatic (btw, Zee, the G is not silent) certainly are still used by reasonably literate people. :o)
Yes; other terms from that "phase" of medicine was hysteria, where female anger was thought associated with the uterus. (If it was PMS-pain anger it could be said they were right :) )
This game in my group has 4 people loving it (personally in my top 10) and 2 people that despise it. Very cool game, very divisive though for us. We have multiple copies in our play group, that's how much we like it.
Very excited for this one since i saw it a few weeks ago. It is the prisoners dilemma packaged as a full game
Yes, like "I played a red here, so if you play a red there we both win" but if I played a yellow and you think you can outwit me with a yellow too we both lose...
If you like the prisoner's dilemma, check out the HMS Dolores board game. It doesn't really contain anything other than this principle. :)
@@deskovkyh yes! i own that already but haven't played it in a few yers
@@NinjarioPicmin I already have Delores at home and haven't played it in a while too. It's more of an interesting pun than a great game.
I bought Four Humours today. Hopefully I'll be able to try it this weekend.